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TIL that Russians eat ice cream in the winter to be warm
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TIL: Marie Antoinette’s last words were, “Pardon me, sir. I meant not to do it”. It was an apology to the executioner for accidentally stepping on his foot on her way to the guillotine.
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TIL the avocado industry in Mexico is so big that the Mexican cartel for years took over farms through extortion. But the city of Tancítaro, the world capital of avocado production, took back their farms back by arming their citizens, building their own police, and bulletproofing their trucks.
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TIL in 1976 the Mego Corporation rejected a deal to make Star Wars action figures, saying it that they would go bankrupt if they made toys of every “flash in the pan” sci-fi B movie that came along.
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TIL that the most recent BOEING whistleblower, whose recent death was ruled a suicide, told his close friend "If anything happens, it's not suicide. I like to breathe too much; I've got so much stuff I need to do and things that I haven't done that I want to do" prior to his death.
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TIL: The pangolin's tongue attaches to the bottom of it's sternum, which is also elongated deeply into it's abdomen.